Bob Barr Conference Call
I was invited to participate in Libertarian Party presidential nominee Bob Barr's first blogger conference call and decided to do so as a public service to OTB readers. I called in three minutes before the call was scheduled to start and was the first one in. Doing so required entering two different sets of pin numbers, which strikes me as ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on July 17, 2008 14:32
Obama Electoral Lead Widens as National Lead Shrinks
Radley Balko notes a "strange dichotomy" in the election polls: Obama's lead in the national head-to-head polls is narrowing at the same time his Electoral College numbers based on state-by-state polls is widening. Sure enough, that's the case. Here's the RealClearPolitics snapshot: Here's the current Electoral College map from electoralvote.com, which has the race at Obama 320 - McCain 204 - ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on July 15, 2008 08:56
Ralph Nader: Obama Not Black Enough
Ralph Nader says that Barack Obama "talks white" and ignores "black issues." "There's only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He's half African-American," Nader said. "Whether that will make any difference, I don't know. I haven't heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on June 25, 2008 12:38
Obama Has Huge Lead in Another Poll
Barack Obama has a 12-point lead in the latest Bloomberg/LAT poll, giving those of us who thought the 15-point lead in last week's Newsweek poll was an outlier some pause. In a two-man race between the major-party candidates, registered voters chose Obama over McCain by 49% to 37% in the national poll, conducted Thursday through Monday. On a four-man ballot that ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on June 25, 2008 07:27
Clinton to Bow Out, Endorse Obama
Along with a few hundred thousand other folks in the area, the power's been out at my place since yesterday afternoon, so I'm a bit behind on my blogging. As everyone knows by now, Hillary Clinton has put out word that she will suspend campaigning and endorse Barack Obama at a rally in DC Saturday. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on June 5, 2008 08:58
Third Party Candidates and Wasting Your Vote
Doug Mataconis rejects the idea that Bob Barr and other third party candidates should defer to the major party candidate most closely aligned with them ideologically. If McCain loses, it won’t be Bob Barr’s fault anymore than Al Gore losing Florida in 2000 was Ralph Nader’s fault. It will be because he didn’t convince enough people to vote for him. Well, "fault" ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on May 14, 2008 09:01
Ralph Nader Running for President
Ralph Nader is making another presidential run, ABC News' Rich Klein reports. Ralph Nader has formed a presidential exploratory committee, and said in an interview Wednesday that he will launch another presidential bid if he's convinced he can raise enough money to appear on the vast majority of state ballots this fall. Nader, who ran as an independent candidate ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on January 30, 2008 12:33
Ralph Nader Backs Edwards, Slams Clinton
Ralph Nader, a four-time presidential candidate whom many Democrats blame for costing Al Gore the 2000 election, has endorsed John Edwards' candidacy. Ralph Nader unleashed on Hillary Rodham Clinton Monday - criticizing her for being soft on defense spending and a chum of big business - and expressed his strong support for John Edwards. In an 11th hour effort to encourage ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on January 1, 2008 10:08
Ron Paul Third in Texas Staw Poll
The Hill headlines news that Houston's Ron Paul finished third in a Texas straw poll "Ron Paul: Trouble back home." While Texan Ron Paul’s stock is soaring nationally, there is trouble on the home front. In September, Paul finished third in a straw poll of 1,300 Texas Republican activists who had been delegates to recent Republican conventions. The congressman ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on November 14, 2007 16:39
Ron Paul – Ralph Nader, Bill Buckley, or Howard Dean?
John Derbyshire and Andrew Sullivan see great similarity's between Ron Paul and a young William F. Buckley, Jr. John Podhoretz and Richard Fernandez, though, see more similarities between Paul and Ralph Nader. Ed Morrissey, meanwhile, thinks he's this years' Howard Dean. To the extent he's following any of those parallels, I'd go with Dean. As Derbyshire notes, Buckley's conservatism ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on November 7, 2007 10:17
Ron Paul Sets Online Fundraising Record
Yesterday's bid to raise $10 million in one day for Ron Paul fell well short. Paul's campaign will happily settle, I'm sure, for the $4.2 million they brought in, which is easily the most brought in on a single day of online fundraising. He'll also gladly take the outpouring of media attention. "Ron Paul Raises More Than $4.2 ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on November 6, 2007 08:08
Voyage of the Damned – The Nation’s Cruise
Not my headline, but rather that of the alternative Seattle Weekly to describe The Nation’s all Liberal cruise to Alaska, with prices from $2600 to $8400. Focus cruises are proliferating, started by The National Review decades ago. The cruise departed Seattle last Saturday. Of course it was the success of The National Review's cruise that obviously prompted The Nation's first ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on July 30, 2007 01:42
Nader Ponders Run, Calls Clinton ‘Coward’
Ralph Nader may make yet another run for the presidency in 2008, Roger Simon reports. Ralph Nader says he is seriously considering running for president in 2008 because he foresees another Tweedledum-Tweedledee election that offers little real choice to voters. "You know the two parties are still converging -- they don't even debate the military budget anymore," Nader said in ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on June 21, 2007 10:48
Presidency Hillary’s to Lose?
Mike Allen begins a story with a rather stunning aside: "Even many Republicans will tell you that the presidency this cycle is Sen. Hillary Clinton’s to lose . . . ." Given how polarizing she is, can that really be the case? Maybe. Months of head-to-head polls showing that every plausible Republican nominee would be her have now ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on May 21, 2007 12:44
Gingrich Decries ‘Game Show’ Presidential Campaign
Newt Gingrich is disgusted with the pathetic, bizarre, and shallow manner in which the current crop of Republican candidates are conducting the campaign. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says the 2008 White House candidates are "demeaning the presidency" by focusing on the race rather than ideas. "We have shrunk our political process to this pathetic dance in which people spend an ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on May 18, 2007 08:07
